Norway Thread

in an attempt to be less sarcastic.

Medal chances:

Andreas Thorkildsen - chucking the javelin
Jaysuma Saidy Ndure - special import from Gambia
Alexander Dale Oen - first swimmer from Norway since the Black Death
women's football team - led by the inimitable Solveig Gulbrandsen
women's handball team - funded by Danish milk
race walkers - er, yeah...
Olaf Tufte - who trains 1500 hours a year - possibly the Norwegian athlete who trains the most - along with running a farm
skeet shooting (I think)
Gunn Rita Dahle FlesjŚ - most winning athlete in women's mountainbike, though has just had a huge injury.

Founder of ESAS - Edgar Schiferli, the best associate bowler
A follower of the schools of Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett and Benaud
Member of JMAS, DMAS, FRAS and RTDAS

when you're winning, you have friendsscores and dozens, real friendswhen you're winning, never lonelywhen you keep winning

After the dire, shameful performance at the winter olympics we need at least four or five gold medals here to redeem ourselves. What's worse is that once the winter olympics were over the Norwegians started winning everything again